Niklas Heidloff
IBM CTO Partner Co-Creations EMEA
Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolNiklas Heidloff is a seasoned software engineer and technology leader with over two decades of experience and 13 years focused on developer advocacy and cloud-native platforms at IBM. As IBM CTO Partner Co-Creations EMEA, he blends deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, OpenShift, Java/Jakarta EE and DevOps with strategic partner-facing innovation. He has a strong open source pedigree—contributing to projects like IBM/cloud-native-starter where he implemented Kubernetes/Istio deployments, health checks, API docs and reactive Kafka streams for Java microservices. Known for translating complex cloud and AI concepts into practical developer solutions, he previously led conversational tooling and Bluemix developer strategy. Based in Germany and trained as a Wirtschaftsinformatiker at Paderborn University, he also maintains an active technical blog that surfaces pragmatic insights from his product and advocacy work.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Diplom Wirtschaftsinformatiker, Diplom, Diplom Wirtschaftsinformatiker at Paderborn University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
kubernetes10
javaee10
microprofile10
java10
javas10
kubernetes-pods10
istio10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
kafka9
rest-api9
openapi8
microservices-application7
microservices7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
IBM/cloud-native-starter
Feb 2019 - Aug 2020
Cloud Native Starter for Java/Jakarta EE based Microservices on Kubernetes and Istio
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:354 commits, 19 PRs, 326 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Niklas primarily contributed to the development of a Java/Jakarta EE-based microservice, articles-java-jee-v1, within the cloud-native starter repository. Their work included implementing deployment scripts for Kubernetes and Istio, creating a health check endpoint, configuring the root application path, and adding API documentation using annotations for the articles service. The user also introduced new classes, such as `ArticleDoesNotExist` and `InvalidArticle`, and implemented a reactive stream for receiving Kafka messages.
spring-bootjavascriptmicroprofileistiojakarta
IBM/slack-watson-bot
Jun 2017 - Nov 2017
**IN PROGRESS** Sample Bots for Slack and Facebook Messenger using IBM Watson and Botkit
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
in-progressbotslack-botbotkitfacebook
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